Press Releases
Gallatin Coal Ash Leaks are a Hidden Environmental Disaster
Nashville, TN- Eight years ago today, a breach at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant discharged more than a billion gallons of toxic coal ash...
Court Rules in Favor of Sea Island Groin Construction
Atlanta, GA-Conservation groups lost an appeal today in Fulton Co. Superior Court challenging the Georgia Shore Protection Committee’s issuance of a permit to Sea Island Acquisition LLC for construction of a groin in an ecologically-sensitive...
New Protections Place Atlantic Canyons Off-limits to Offshore Drilling
Charlottesville, VA- Today the Obama administration announced that it would permanently protect 3.8 million acres of the Atlantic Ocean from offshore oil and gas development...
Federal Court Declares $900M Garden Parkway Toll Highway Dead on Arrival
Chapel Hill, N.C. A ruling today by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on a legal challenge to the Garden Parkway, a proposed toll highway project near Charlotte, N.C., found it is not a viable...
New Draft EU Energy Policies Take Small Step to Limit Burning of Trees for Electricity
Washington, D.C.- Following Multi-Year Campaign, Environmental Groups See Potential in Fight to Protect Forests and Communities from Dirty Biomass; But is Now the Responsibility of the EU Parliament and Council to Strengthen the Commission’s Proposal...
Nashville Wildlife Rehabilitator on Compressor Battle: “We’re Fighting For Our Lives.”
Nashville, TN– Wildlife rehabilitator and Nashville singing star Lane Brody says if a noisy natural gas compressor is built near her charity’s property it likely would force her organization to move. Brody, the director of...
Administrative Court Allows Flooding of Blounts Creek with Mine Wastewater
Chapel Hill, N.C.- A state administrative court today upheld a state permit that allows a proposed Martin Marietta mine to flood a popular fishing creek in eastern North Carolina with wastewater from the mine.
Conservation Groups Reach Settlement with Duke Energy on Sutton Coal Ash
Chapel Hill, N.C.—Conservation groups have reached a settlement with Duke Energy that secures up to $1.5 million for water quality and conservation efforts in the lower Cape Fear Watershed near Wilmington. The Southern Environmental Law...
Pipeline Rupture Contamination Should be Getting Better, but it’s Getting Worse
Greenville, S.C. – Kinder Morgan’s latest report to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) shows that toxic pollutant concentrations from a gasoline pipeline rupture in Anderson County nearly two years ago are...
Figure Eight Island Homeowners Reject Shoreline Hardening
Chapel Hill, N.C.—The Figure Eight Island Homeowners Association Board of Directors announced yesterday that its membership has denied a proposal to build a terminal groin at the north end of the island, a project that would...